Performing identities: re-creation and representation of African performance aesthetics

Abstract

There are several factors that inform the popular inscriptions of identity and sense of belonging in writers of African and Caribbean descent in contemporary Britain. The dramatists explore their social and cultural identity, or the idea that identities are created due to certain cultural and possibly political stimuli; but what is gradually being revealed about these writers and their writing from their drama, is that culture, rather than race, is more imperative in the creation and exploration of the various identities